Boz Scaggs Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Style #Together #Songwriting

“I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Singers #Arena #Jazz

“My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Influence #Heard #Household

“My first love was the sound of guitar.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#First Love #Guitar #Sound

“I was a guitar player first off.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Player #Guitar #Firsts

“As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Player #Piano #Used

“I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Able #Steps #Feels

“I love all kinds of music.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Kind #All Kinds

“I'm not a jazz singer.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Singers #Jazz

“The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Thinking #Answers #Singers

“There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Radio #Used

“I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Years #Trying #Fifteen

“I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#World #Distracted

“I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Voice #Way #Findings

“I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Quartets #Flexibility

“My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Parent #Lovers #Music Lover

“I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Artist #Retrospect #Strings

“A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Done #Singers

“From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians hearts are.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Heart #Play #San Francisco

“As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Player #Guitar #Style

“I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Player #Guitar #Rock And Roll

“I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Musical #Steps #Instinct

“I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Thinking #Artist #Records

“I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Thinking #Voice #Hills

“Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.”
-- Boz Scaggs

#Black #Radio #Sides